NAPLES — Speed and alcohol allegedly were factors in a crash that claimed the life of one man and sent another to the hospital early Friday, according to police. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies received a report of a single-vehicle accident just before 4:30 a.m., according to Capt. Don Goulet, after a resident walking a dog […]
Central Maine Medical Center
Four-part series to address healthy eating
LEWISTON — “Healthy Eating = Quality of Life” is the topic of a four-part series being presented in July by Central Maine Medical Center’s executive chef Oleg Opalnyk. The classes will be offered free of charge on July 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Atrium kitchen on the third-floor […]
Session to focus on training for cyclists
LEWISTON — “Rehabilitation Exercises and Cross Training For Cyclists” is the topic of an informational session set for Monday, July 9, at Central Maine Medical Center. Certified athletic trainer Greg Jancaitis from Central Maine Sports Medicine will review how the repetitive motion of pedaling and leaning forward can lead to muscular tightness and imbalances. He […]
Newborns pay price as opiate addiction rises in Maine
LEWISTON — For days, doctors and nurses kept Caleb’s newborn son in a dark, quiet area of the hospital, where they hoped the baby’s opiate withdrawal would be relatively quick, relatively easy. It wasn’t. He spent 11 days in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, where a rotating series of medical personnel tried to gauge […]
Coming on Sunday: Newborns pay the price as opiate addiction rises in Maine
For 11 days, Caleb could only watch as his newborn son cried and clenched his little body in a dark, quiet area of a hospital neonatal intensive care unit. The baby had been born to a mom on drugs. Now out in the world, he was going through withdrawal. In 2005, the boy would have […]
Couple treks up Appalachian corridor by bicycle before moving to Lewiston
LEWISTON — In their 2,250-mile bicycle trek from Arkansas to Acadia National Park, Dr. Clayton Bell and Jeanie Zelinski seemed to go out of their way to find the steepest hills. “We, as in Clayton, chose every mountain there was,” Zelinski said. Few Tennessee-to-Maine travelers would pass through the White Mountains’ Kancamagus Highway. They did. “It […]
Hematology-Oncology Associates recognized
LEWISTON — Central Maine MedicalCenter’s Hematology-Oncology Associates practice, 12 High St., has been recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The certification program provides a three-year certification for outpatient hematology-oncology practices that meet the highest standards for quality cancer care. QOPI is a voluntary, […]
MaineGeneral to get CMMC’s trauma docs
LEWISTON — Central Maine Medical Center’s loss is MaineGeneral Medical Center’s gain. CMMC’s four trauma surgeons are going to work for MaineGeneral in Augusta, doubling that hospital’s staff of surgeons, according to MaineGeneral CEO Chuck Hays. The four doctors had made up CMMC’s entire team of trauma surgeons. Three left earlier this year; the fourth […]
8 hospitalized in 3-car crash in Winthrop
WINTHROP, Maine (AP) — Police say eight people have been taken to the hospital following a three-car crash in Winthrop. Police say a car driven by 55-year-old Susan Chandonnet of Lewiston was headed east on Route 202 at about 6 p.m. on Thursday when it was struck from behind by a car driven by 20-year-old […]